Apple's all white designs, my portfolio site seared retinas. Designers: never use white interfaces. It's like staring into a flashlight.

the short lived side-scrolling-in-websites phase, again, I wanted to show flow in a horizontal manner.

turning all photos into squares became common I proposed doing so for a photo management application. Rejected, of course, because no one else did it.

Angular/etc's <md-sidenav-container>, I worked to create invisible interfaces which only appeared in context/on demand.

Even now, I use meometer — from late 2010 — designed for a heads up display for contact lenses/glasses which won't exist for years.

Understand, I think many of these folks did/do a better job than I did — with an exception or two — and it's not at all unique. PARC and Yugo Nakamura and Josh Davis and whoever did the design at Suck.com so many others live in the future, too.

OS/2 (~1990)
"A better DOS than DOS and a better Windows than Windows." Plus 32-bit?
A handful of the multimedia diskettes and cd-roms I designed, developed, and produced for IBM contained the requirement: it needs to run on OS/2. I saw future concepts all over this baby.